iN PHOTOS: Why so many are tuning into Summerland’s sound healing studio

People are travelling from across Southern B.C. to hear what Delta & Sound Healing Centre in Summerland is all about.

Owner Naomi Delta launched the business last July and figures around 1,000 clients have come through her door. Most of her sessions get fully booked. She said some have come from as far as Princeton, Lumby and Vernon, and only around half are local.

It’s like a yoga studio, where each person has their own mat and space to lie down. But instead of stretching the body beyond the point of comfort, sound healing sessions invite participants to just lay down and soak in the soothing sounds from instruments like the gong, rainstick, chimes, symbols and didgeridoo.

It’s a tranquil experience that’s easy for anybody to enjoy.

But some people get quite a bit more out of it than relaxation.

Delta, and many of the people who attend her classes, believe these sounds resonate at a level that is difficult to quantify.

“We are literally made out of frequency,” she said. “We are frequency that has created itself, and we’re seeing each other as matter.”

Delta believes there is no limit on the effects that sound frequencies can have on nature’s other frequencies. By positively altering any distortions within a person’s frequency, she said it’s even possible to heal the pain in a sore joint or muscle.

“I had to learn a respect for these instruments – they don’t just sound cool, they actually affect your reality.”

Delta said one woman attended a session thinking she was addressing just a physical ailment, but she ended up having an epiphany during the session and then making a major career change.

“It completely shifted her path in life.”

However sound healing sessions are not just about healing. Delta describes her space as a “consciousness playground.”

Sound healing is a practice that many people are still not familiar with, so sessions begin with a discussion about what to expect, and an ambient mood is set to help everybody wind down.

Once everybody is laying down and comfortable, the vibrations from each instrument begin to fill the room.

Even after looking at all the instruments before the session begins, it can be difficult to know which one is being used while the eyes are closed.

Each note and tone is changed by the acoustics of the room as Delta wanders around the studio with the different instruments.

It can entice the consciousness into a dream-like state while still awake, inspire the imagination, and induce some creative shows within the theatre of the mind.

She said it’s not uncommon for people to experience intense visuals like vortexes.

“Some people are here to work on childhood traumas and others just to astrotravel.”

Delta puts considerable thought and effort into which instruments make it into her collection. She wants to make sound waves that are calming, pleasant, and will be the most potent.

Classes are offered in private and group sessions, and can be booked through the Delta and Sound website. 

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